Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Unconditional Positive Regard, Insanity Defense, Trobriand Islands

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Theory built on select population: bias. Analyst hardly an objective observer: conceptual. Evidence for freud: unconscious processing, semantic priming effect, repression, memory lapses during therapy. Evidence against freud: dreams, thirsty subjects awoken during rem do not dream of drinking, anthropological evidence, oedipus complex not universal, e. g. trobriand islanders. The self: organized, consistent set of beliefs and perceptions. Deny or ignore: (cid:862)p(cid:396)o(cid:271)le(cid:373)s i(cid:374) li(cid:448)i(cid:374)g(cid:863) Need for positive regard: unconditional positive regard from parents (and self) If (cid:455)ou do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e it, you suffer from condition of worth. If you have it, you are a fully functioning person. High self-esteem related to positive social life and happiness. Diffi(cid:272)ult to defi(cid:374)e o(cid:396) p(cid:396)edi(cid:272)t (cid:449)hat (cid:449)ill (cid:271)e a self a(cid:272)tualizi(cid:374)g te(cid:374)de(cid:374)(cid:272)(cid:455) (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)es e(cid:395)ual to (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iou(cid:396) Social cognitive approach: rotter, bandura, cattel, big five. (cid:373)e(cid:374)tal ill(cid:374)ess(cid:863) (cid:374)ot al(cid:449)a(cid:455)s (cid:272)o(cid:374)side(cid:396)ed (cid:862)(cid:373)e(cid:374)tal(cid:863) o(cid:396) (cid:862)ill(cid:374)ess(cid:863) 1140 b. c china institutions for the insane established (create a prison for the mental people, not very humanistic)